THE CIS COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION UPS THE LEVEL OF INTERACTION
by Vladimir Vasiliev

WPS Agency
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
December 3, 2008 Wednesday
Russia

THE CIS COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION BACKED THE
RUSSIAN INITIATIVE OF A NEW SYSTEM OF WARNING AND DEALING WITH
MILITARY-POLITICAL THREATS; Russia’s allies in the CIS Collective
Security Treaty Organization support the idea of a new system of
warning and dealing with military-political threats.

Russia’s partners in the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization
supported the initiative of a new system of warning and dealing with
military-political threats.

According to Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha, the latest meeting
of the Council of Ministers of the CIS Collective Security Treaty
Organization (Armenia, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan) in the Armenian capital of Yerevan agreed to draw a new
comprehensive document on European security. Development of a common
antiaircraft defense system was suggested at the meeting as well.

Victor Zavarzin, Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Duma,
commented that the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization
was promoting political and military integration had already
elevated integration between member states to a new level. "We are
already at the level of consultations over problems of strategic
security, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile
ethnologies," he said. "Also importantly, we agree on global matters
like reorganization of the global and European security architecture
and rearrangement of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization
itself."

"The establishment of a directorate of new challenges and threats in
the Secretariat of the Organization became a major milestone," Zavarzin
continued. "As for practical steps, we plan to form an international
army group in the Central Asian region, develop united military
systems for antiaircraft defense, troops control, communications,
and information gathering. Where military-technical cooperation is
concerned, the agreement on its basic principles finally came into
force. Members of the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization are
now permitted to buy military hardware from each other at a discount."